The Shape I'm In – The Band – 1970
Album: Stage Fright
Go out yonder, peace in the valley (Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2023/10/31 - 09:32
"The Shape I'm In" is a song performed live by Bob Dylan and The Band that delves into feelings of desperation, struggle, and the search for redemption. The lyrics paint a vivid picture of a person who is emotionally and physically drained, longing for companionship and a sense of purpose.
The opening lines, "Go out yonder, peace in the valley, Come downtown, have to rumble in the alley," suggest a stark contrast between a peaceful and idyllic existence and the harsh realities of urban life. The narrator feels lost and misunderstood, as evidenced by the repeated phrase, "Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in."
The mention of the narrator's lady and the longing for her presence indicate a deep yearning for connection and emotional support. The lines, "Has anybody seen my lady, This living alone will drive me crazy," express the loneliness and the toll it is taking on the narrator's mental... (Continues)
Written by primary songwriter and guitarist Robbie Robertston, who made it no secret that it was a worried number about pianist Richard Manuel, who had self-destructive tendencies and struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction, and who sings the lead vocal here.
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Note adattate da : Something Else !
JANUARY 9, 2014 BY NICK DERISO
“The Shape I’m In,” despite its galloping cadence, finds the Band’s Robbie Robertson desperately attempting to reach out to the badly faltering Richard Manuel.
Manuel had, by this point, gone into an addiction spiral that would rob him of his creative position in the Band, and ultimately his life.
What I think I hear is Robertson giving voice to his own worst fears about a treasured friend, and hoping — hoping perhaps against hope — that a nightly reading of these devastatingly un-redemptive lyrics would someday... (Continues)
(1969)
Musica un po' copiata da You Ain't Go Nowhere (da The Basement Tapes di Bob Dylan & The Band interpretata anche da The Byrds)
Double-sided Vietnam War single by Chicano soul group Six Pak, released on the Californian label Gordo (# 704), founded by Eddie Davis (a sub-label of his Rampart Records). Both tracks had a Latin Soul feel to it - of course, the label focused on Mexican Americans.
This formed part of the West Coast 'Eastside Sound' music scene. According to the president of Rampart Steven Chavez: "almost 50% of the artists from the East Side Sound era served in combat roles in Viet Nam, losing their innocence to a war in the prime of their youth, and returned to a changed American music scene that pretty much turned their back on them with the advent of new genres like hard rock, heavy metal, punk, disco and the like".
Firstly, the group covered the song "Weep... (Continues)
(1967)
Parole di Bob Dylan
Musica di Richard Manuel
Originariamente registrata da Dylan con The Band nei famosi Basement Tapes pubblicati solo nel 1975
Registrata nel 1968 dalla Band senza Dylan in apertura dell'album Music from Big Pink cantata da Richard Manuel e da Joan Baez in Any Day Now .
Tears of Rage … is a soldier’s curse upon his commander. It’s the voice of a man who followed his leader into battle, saw his friends slaughtered for a cause he never believed in, only to return to find his superior running for political office, turning his back on the values that were so easily sacrificed. “We carried you in our arms / on Independence Day” is the kind of battle-scar allusion that Robbie Robertson will flesh out on ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” …
“Tears of Rage” doesn’t depend on the same associations, but it pursues the same memories and voices , a disbelief in and... (Continues)
Album: Stage Fright